Geoff Dyer Quotes

The more you covet something, the more certain it is that you’ll lose it, and the more devastating the loss will be when it happens-which it will. (p. 216).

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• Islam is antiauthoritarian, sex-positive monotheism.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Positive
  • Sex
  • Islam

• You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Reality
  • You
  • Find

• I'm very lucky. I had a great childhood.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Great
  • Childhood
  • Lucky

• I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Support
  • Rights
  • Voting

• I'm the kind of guy who really likes a challenge. It's more rewarding.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Guy
  • Kind
  • Challenge

• Fame is definitely a monster: it can suck you in and spit you out and change you. The biggest challenge is to remain yourself regardless of what people say about you.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Change
  • Challenge

• I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Never
  • More
  • Writer

• Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.

  

  Irena Sendler
  • Help
  • Today
  • Earth

• Every time I go on stage, it's like a first date. I put on my best clothes, shave, and get as handsome as I can. Then I say the cutest things I know to say, and I become the very best Bill Medley I can be because I want to win my date over. My audience is the date that I want to impress every time.

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • Time

• I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.

  

  Bobby McFerrin
  • Good
  • Music

• A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea. I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.

  

  Bruce Cockburn
  • Good
  • War
  • Fighting

• Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Great

• I only ever worked on interiors, and an interior is an interior. I don't know what they did about exteriors.

  

  Christopher Eccleston

• When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • Music
  • Song

• I'm just trying to be Emory Cohen.

  

  Emory Cohen
  • Trying

• If we get you in the early years of your life and we fill your head with all of the Catholic stories, then it's very hard for you to stop being Catholic. Catholics are Catholics because they like being Catholic.

  

  Andrew Greeley
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Catholic

• I was lucky to have parents who loved me.

  

  Jean Paul Gaultier
  • Parents

• But after this last year and dealing with the studio, the rest of us are closer than we've ever been.

  

  Bruce McCulloch
  • Rest

• Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Book
  • Culture
  • Contentment

• Well, in pharmacology, if the effect is local, it's of course absolutely awkward to use it in any other way than as a local treatment.

  

  Arvid Carlsson

• I shall not be deprived ... of a comfort in the worst event, if I retain a consciousness of having acted to the best of my judgment.

  

  George Washington
  • Integrity
  • Consciousness
  • Judgment

• When I take photographs, my body inevitably enters a trancelike state. Briskly weaving my way through the avenues, every cell in my body becomes as sensitive as radar, responsive to the life of the streets... If I were to give it words, I would say: "I have no choice... I have to shoot this... I can't leave this place for another's eyes... I have to shoot it... I have no choice." An endless, murmuring refrain.

  

  Daido Moriyama
  • Giving
  • Choices
  • Eye

• The more you covet something, the more certain it is that you’ll lose it, and the more devastating the loss will be when it happens-which it will. (p. 216).

  

  Geoff Dyer